new movie titles -will they be blu-ray or hd-dvd

Have movie producers decided on which format they will pick for their movie titles blue ray or hd. How long will movie companies continue to make the standard dvd for their movie titles. I hope at least for the next 10 years.

As far as I am concerned there should no blue ray or hd. They should both fail. I am happy with the standard dvd movie and why should I have to buy new dvd players. It is bad enough that I have to replace some of by tvs/vcr/dvd recorders by 2/17/09 as probably my cable company will changing to all digital signal.

So what will movies companies do and do we really need this blue ray/hd aggrevation and this all digital signal 2/17/09 law.

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Last edited by jefve; 27-07-2006 at 06:29.

Right now they are doing them in both but from what I can see they are doing blue ray more than HD.

Blu-Ray Titles Currently Available 30

50 First Dates
Knight's Tale
Basic Instinct 2
Crash
Hitch
House of Flying Daggers
IMAX - Chronos
Into the Blue
Léon the Professional
Lord of War
Memento
R.V.
Robocop
S.W.A.T.
Saw
Silent Hill
Species
Stealth
Tears of the Sun
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Benchwarmers
The Big Hit
The Fifth Element
The Last Waltz
The Punisher
The Terminator
Ultraviolet
Underworld: Evolution
XXX
XXX 2


HD-DvD Titles Currently Available 73

16 Blocks
A View From Space With Heavenly
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
Army of Darkness
Assassin in Blue
Assault on Precinct 13
Backdraft
Berlioz - Requiem
Blazing Saddles
Boys Be...Vol. 3: Autumn
Cheech Marin and Friends
Cinderella Man
Citizen Verdict
Clean
Constantine
Dazed and Confused
Doom
El Chave Del 8 Presenta: Don Ramon
El Chave Del 8 Presenta: Dona Florin
End of Days
Entre El Amor y Odio
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Firewall
Forbidden Fruits
Friday Night Lights
Full Metal Jacket
Galaxina
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Goodfellas
Happy Gilmore
Hip Hop Nation Vol. 1
Hip Hop Nation Vol. 2
Huracan
IMAX - Chronos
Jarhead
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Lethal Weapon
Million Dollar Baby
Money, Power, Respect
Muriel Anderson - A Guitar Scape Planet
National Lampoon's Animal House
Pitch Black
Poseidon
Ray
Red Dragon
Robin Harris: Live From The Comedy Act Theater
Rumor Has It
Seabiscuit
Seed of Faith
Serenity
Soundtrack to War: The Movie
Spy Game
Stalingrad
Swordfish
Syriana
That's the Way of the World
The Bone Collector
The Bourne Supremacy
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Fugitive
The Interpreter
The Kowloon Assignment
The Last Samurai
The Legend of Leigh Bowery
The Perfect Storm
The Rundown
Traffic
Training Day
U-571
Unforgiven
Unleashed
Van Helsing


And the lists are growing everyday.

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Last edited by platinumsword; 27-07-2006 at 09:51.

Thanks platinumsword. Since this is moving so fast forward I decided to start learning a little more so I don't go out and not know what I really need.

"blur ray"


muhahahahhaha

Just saw it now...

But what if by wild chance HD-DVD wins?


You never know but I'm shooting for blue ray too.

if f blue ray titles are increasing, then when will blue ray dvd players be a $100 in price

I doubt that it will be that low and if it does we are looking around 5 to 10 years if that.

Since both formats work on a blue laser concept, you will most likely see players that will support both formats.

Yup, and most likely not only players. That that will require a little bit time...

Well just have to see what happens with that one. If you are talking about pay cable television, you most liklly already have digital tv. Your cable box converts it from digital to analog and will continue to do so even after that date so nothing will change and your current equipment will work just fine after 2009. What is effected is brodcast tv. If it actually does happen, brodcast tv will all be digital and your equipment must have a digital tuner or no free over the air brodcast tv. I say if it does happen, because it was suposed to have already happened (it was set into law back in the 90's), and if I am not mistaken, they have already pushed back the deadline twice (the 2009 deadline would be the second time they have pushed it back). They also are claiming subsidies to provide free digital to analog converters to those still using analog tv sets. I think the current planned subsidy is something like 40$ or 50$ for a converter and you can get 2 per household. It would be funny if half the nation requested two converters. That would be somewhere along the lines of 2 billion dollars in subsidies. If it happened, I'm betting the deadline would get pushed back yet again, but eventually it will happen (when most Americans have switched to digital equipment on their own).
I suspect that blue laser formats will be the same. They cannot force it down our throat (they cannot make us buy stuff) and dvd will be alive for a long time. Movie companies will not stop producing dvd's if that is where the sales potential is and if there are not enough consumers that use blue laser players. Hardware manufactures will not stop producing dvd equipment if that is what people are still buying (they are not going to just throw away all the sales to other companies that still make dvd ewuipment). Rental companies will not stop renting dvd's and stores will not stop selling them if that is what the consumer is willing the shell out the money for. It will eventually happen, but who knows if blue ray or hd will even be the formats to do it. Personally the drm/broadcast flag type of things included with these formats is enough to make me never upgrade and I know at least some other people feel the same way (though they will probably crack it all in no time).

I wouldn't worry too much about being forced to upgrade. It wont happen till the equipment is so cheap that everyone can easilly afford them (like dvd drives/player are now, 30$). Dvd still hasent even killed cd despite the low cost (though they are working on it).

I, for one, will not be plumping for either BR or HDDVD until one or the other dies. Whoever decided that 2 competing formats would help drive things forward needs there head looking at.

I may in the end get a BR or HDDVD drive if its in a games console but that then locks you into the format used for that. I wont be buying any movies in HD format.

I want Blu-ray to win
Wish I had money for this
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...eature-BWU100A

But i'll be happy with either as I am now hooked on HD content after seeing these clips:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_hdcontent_home.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...case.aspx#more

For the OP, here are upcoming movie listings for both formats.

Blu-ray (the site also shows the optical drive prototypes )
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/

HD-DVD
http://www.dvdtown.com/announcements...st/2006/HD-DVD

I personally don't see one winning over the other as XBOX is going HD-DVD and PS3 is going Blu-ray. Both will have it's target audience.

hd-dvd for the win for the home user